History of Japanese Society of Biofeedback Research and Japanese Studies about Heart Rate Variability

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  • 日本バイオフィードバック学会の歴史と心拍変動に関する日本の研究

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<p>  The first meeting for biofeedback research in Japan was held in October 1973, Dr. David Shapiro of Harvard University came to Japan to give a presentation related to the voluntary control of human blood pressure at the meeting. After the meeting, the membership increased rapidly, and the Japanese Society of Biofeedback Research (JSBR) was formed in 1981. Members from three fields―medicine, engineering, and psychology―have come together to form this society, and this interdisciplinary collaboration is a unique characteristics of JSBR. Many experimental and clinical studies have been conducted. JSBR made a certification system for biofeedback technician in 1988. About thirty members of JSBR are certificated as biofeedback technicians to date.</p><p>  In Japan, research on heart rate variability (HRV) has been conducted from an early period. At the third annual meeting in 1975, Umezawa and Suzuki indicated that the respiration rate affected HRV and produced few changes in the heart rate level. In 1986, Inamori published a paper titled “Influence of respiration on heart rate level and heart rate variability” in Japanese Journal of Biofeedback Research, volume 13. Many other studies about heart rate variability were carried out in Japan since the 1980s. At the 30th annual meeting of JSBR in 2002, heart rate variability biofeedback (HRV-BF) was first introduced. Dr. Paul Lehrer of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School attended the meeting and gave a lecture about HRV-BF. After his lecture, researchers and clinicians in Japan started getting more interested in HRV-BF. Lehrer was invited back to the 41th annual JSBR meeting in 2013. He gave a lecture at a special workshop about HRV-BF and made a presentation at the HRV-BF symposium. Further investigations of the basic mechanisms and the development of a theory about HRV-BF are expected.</p>

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